Marvel Comics has been at war with its comic book reading customers for years, ever since the Marvel Now! Initiative, where fans saw beloved characters replaced with knockoffs of different race, gender, or sexualities. Popular cultural analyst Yellowflash 2 has uncovered that Marvel is doubling down on a race and gender swap with the upcoming issue of Moon Knight, where the original character is replaced with a black woman.
Marvel and DC have been at the forefront of the culture war for a long time, changing and replacing characters at break-neck rates, and it’s caused the comic industry problems across their attempts to do so. Comic shops have been closing, and sales are worse than ever, yet they still try to push their extreme politics into these comics at every turn.
Regarding replacing characters, Marvel Comics has been the worse of the two. They started back in the 1970s, replacing Captain America briefly with his black counterpart, The Falcon. At the time, it was meant as a temporary thing, and in canon, it was because Steve Rogers lost his powers. The modern replacements, however, have a more permanent air to them as woke writers are pushing an anti-white and anti-male agenda.
With Marvel Now! Iron Man was replaced by a black woman, Riri Williams. A young Asian boy replaced Hulk. Thor became a woman. Miles Morales was introduced into the mainline universe as Spider-Man, who became the most famous race replacement character. The result was a trainwreck of sales. Comic shop owners complained that Marvel Comics had cut its sales by more than half.
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The moves created a legion of reviewers who pointed out the low quality of these books and how they were torpedoing the pop culture giant of a company. Yellowflash 2 was one of the early pioneers in the pop culture YouTube field, building his channel by appealing to the audiences Marvel Comics shunned.
Moon Knight had a recent relaunch a few years ago, helmed by a rising star at Marvel, Jed McKay, best known for his strong female lead Black Cat title. Issue #30 is set to come out this week and features a large banner across the top of the cover saying it’s “The Last Days Of Moon Knight!”
Yellowflash found an early preview of the book and something more sinister about the content. In it, a black female character named Reese has been a part of a group calling themselves Mission Midnight. As the real Moon Knight dies, she appears to take the mantle by wearing a costume of his traditional appearance. The signal is that she’s replacing Moon Knight as a character.
YellowFlash commented on the leaked image, tweeting, “LOL Marvel killed off the old Moon Knight and replaced him with a black lesbian.”
What followed from his bringing this race and gender replacement to light was a backlash from Marvel Comics fans, who are sick of seeing these characters replaced. Dozens of comic readers replied, outraged about Marvel’s treatment of Moon Knight and yet another cynical identity politics-based replacement character joining the growing roster of bastardized content from the comic book company.
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How is this even shocking anymore? Just par for the course for these clowns. lol